The Irish Scissor Sisters by Mick McCaffrey

Author:Mick McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Mick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781908023353
Publisher: Y BOOKS
Published: 2012-06-10T18:51:00+00:00

The next twelve days were busy for gardaí. Huge searches took place in the three fields and parks in Tallaght. On 22 August Garda Eamon Bracken recovered a knife and a large hammer from the lake in Sean Walsh Park. These were the principle weapons used to murder Farah. Despite long garda hours being put into extensive searches at Killinarden Park and Killinarden Hill, nothing of any evidential value was ever recovered.

At lunchtime on 2 September, the two investigating gardaí again visited Linda at her home. She was not in good shape. The mother-of-four couldn’t sleep at all now and DI Mangan suggested that she should go to see her doctor to get a prescription for sleeping tablets. She thought this was a good idea but said she couldn’t go with the guards, to point out where they’d been on the day of the murder, because she couldn’t organise a babysitter for her kids. She didn’t want to leave them with Andrew, her eighteen-year-old brother.

DI Mangan and Sgt Hickey came back five days later and Linda was in the kitchen ironing clothes and preparing dinner for the kids, who were due home from school. She made the men coffee and told them that she’d spoken to her sister, who was going to hand herself in to them. When she finished ironing, they went back to the field in Killinarden Hill so a detective could film the scene on video. She rang her brother on the way and asked him to collect a prescription for sleeping tablets for her at the local clinic. They went back into the field and she led them to the same area where they’d been on 19 August. She said she was certain that this was where she had brought the head and smashed it up. Detective Garda Dominic Cox, a scenes of crime examiner based at Mountjoy, filmed this as evidence.

The detectives needed to know exactly where Linda and her sister and mother had been with Farah on the day he was murdered. On the way into O’Connell Street Linda started crying in the car because she couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened. None of the guards had tissues so they stopped at a petrol station on the Tallaght by-pass and Linda bought tissues and cigarettes. She started to speak about how her daughter loved sports and was very good at football. Linda was sad because she knew she was going to spend a long time in jail. After showing the guards where they had drunk on the Liffey Boardwalk, they drove up O’Connell Street. She indicated where Farah and Kathleen had had the fight, after seeing the Chinese child:

‘I could hear Farah and me ma fighting. We walked up O’Connell Street, where the cinema is. Some time after that we met a little Chinese boy playing with his friends. Farah started saying to the boy, “Cathy, this is my son; this is my son.” My ma said, “Go away, you bleeding eejit; that is not your son.

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